We're moms who know the devastating effects of childhood cancer and autoimmune disorders firsthand. We know can protect other children from having to suffer the same terrible consequences from the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL)’s contamination, but we need your help.

We lost the existing cleanup agreement for the Boeing Company’s portion of the Santa Susana Field Lab last week. Now Boeing, which owns most of the field lab, will leave 98% of the toxic chemical waste on-site. On June 9, 2022, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will vote if they will continue to regulate the contaminated rain runoff flowing offsite after Boeing’s so-called cleanup is finished. 

This fight is not over. 

One way that the contamination from the SSFL impacts our community is through the rain runoff that reaches the Calleguas Creek Watershed. The watershed provides drinking water to residents, is used to irrigate crops, supports sensitive and endangered wildlife, and drains into the Pacific Ocean.

Cleaning up the source of the contamination is the only way we’ll be safe, and since California’s regulating agency, the DTSC, is allowing Boeing to leave most of the contamination behind, it only makes sense that the Water Board should continue to regulate the polluted rain runoff through a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. 

We need your help at the ONLY opportunity the public has to impact the Water Board’s decision before they vote on June 9, 2022.

Please take one minute to send our pre-formatted email to the Water Board to ask them to vote “NO.”

Please help us oppose Boeing’s Settlement Agreement and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s motion to stop monitoring the water runoff from the SSFL that pollutes local waterways and the canceling of Boeing’s NPDES permit.

You can also join us, in person or virtually, at the Los Angeles Water Board Hearing on June 9, at the Government Center in Ventura. We will gather at 8:15 am, protest at 8:30 am, and we will encourage the public to speak during the Water Board’s public comment period beginning at 9:00 am. 

This is our last opportunity to stop Boeing from harming our community, wildlife, and the environment with polluted rainwater. 

Warmly,
Melissa Bumstead and the Parents Against the Santa Susana Field Lab